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These four entries are hand written transcriptions of Hampshire Gazette articles: A 1931 article on the burning of the Lafayette Lodge Trow's Hotel burns down 1898 Reminiscences of Worthington 1871 - signed 'A Traveler' Story of Centennial…

Three newsclippings pertaining to taking water from Westfield River .

Photocopy of newspaper article from the Country Journal about the weights and measures chest which Ted Claydon tenderly restored. Reference is made to the annual meeting on Sunday, October 15. George Ashley, Professor of History at HCC, was the…

Yellowing copy of newsprint of 1925 telling of Lafayette's Visit to Worthington in 1825. 'Worthington Woman, Grand-daughter of Col. William Rice, Who Welcomed Noted Frenchman, Tells of His Visit a Century Ago.' Features photograph of Katharine…

This newspaper article from the Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 10, 1990, was written by Janet Dimock about the Robert Sweeney house that was moved from CT to Thayer Hill Road in 1986. They purchased the house in 1985. It was rebuilt by Teton Builders…

Newspaper article by Lisa Freiman in Daily Hampshire Gazette (?), fifth story in a series on Hampshire county crimes. Worthington: there were no recorded crimes in 1800s and early 1900s. Helen Magargal and Lois Ashe Brown both comment on lack of…

Newspaper clipping glued to paper about Library after 53 years of service.

Judge John Wiig and his wife - restored by Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Warren. Several articles on the restoration of this house (identify)

Newspaper clipping on the Buffington Place 'one of the finest doorways in New England, the gift of Mrs. Maude Brewer Lang to the Connecticut Valley Historical society. It (the front door) came orriginally from an old house in Worthington and is now…

Formerly Dr. and 'Nanny' Heacock House. Mr. and Mrs. Restored by DeWitt C. Markham? Chamberlain

A newspaper account by Janet Dimock with photos of the restoration of the Chauncy Pease house on Huntington Road by Marie Burkhart and Scott Heyl.

Newspaper clipping about Humphrey: 'former resident of the house is George W. Humphrey, indicted in September on a charge of counterfeiting in the cellar of the house.' House was built in 1780 by Ezra Starkweather but his wife found it too far out…

Jonathan Huntington Parsonage. Restored by Mrs. Kenneth (Jerrilee) Bunce (now Jerrilee Cain)

The old Burr Farm. 128 years in the same family. Harriet Burr died on Wednesday, April 4, 2007.

Mr. and Mrs. Chester Jones restored the Shipman house on East Winsor Road.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy McCann (see 34-13a). Debbie Shaw restored it as Worthington Inn. Old North Road. This is also Four Corners Farm.

Two newspaper articles - 1. in 1981, Historic worthington house purchased by N.Y. couple (Mr. and Mrs. Michael Newman from Pierre and Deland Robbins Kelly deBeaumont for approximately $250,000 2. in 1948, Worthington Social Life at Peak in…

Newspaper clipping on the history of the Woodbridge House. Once owned by Judge Howe (Wm. Cullen Bryant's law teacher), subsequently by Alfred Chapin; today owned by Scott Heyl and Marie Burkhart. Includes sepia tone photo (1943) of front door. 'The…

Daily Hampshire Gazette with photos and article by Janet Dimock. Photos include the Joslyn home in winter (a Gothic Revival style), another Italianate embellishment on a late Greek Revival house from 1860 which is the Rogina and Keith Modestow home,…

This Old House' on the corner of Indian Oven and Old Post roads. Picture of house and Jerrilee Cain behind her stockade fence on the cover. 'How Jerrilee Cain's obsession with detail has brought an antique house back to life in Worthington.' Jerrilee…